Follow-Up: Why Carol Highsmith Is Suing Getty Images for $1 Billion

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It was a lawsuit heard ’round the photo world.
As we noted on Friday, photographer Carol M. Highsmith filed suit against Getty Image on July 25 for a staggering sum — $1 billion — alleging “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs of Americana. Highsmith claims that Getty …